Comment & Opinion

WASHINGTON (TNS) — At the heart of the crisis facing journalism — and hence democracy, too — is the question of bias. Can journalists ever really be i...

NEW YORK (TNS) — It is an odd confession to make about a statistic, I realize, but then again I am an economist, so I am just going to go ahead: I lov...

The socialist now running New York City recently hailed a “rent freeze” on 1 million apartments. Not surprisingly, it didn’t take long for the laws of...

At an Arctic Council meeting in Rovaniemi, Finland, in May 2019, Mike Pompeo asked whether the world wanted the Arctic Ocean to become another South C...

When thinking of President Donald Trump, a famous line from Francis Ford Coppola’s "The Godfather" may come to mind. At one point, Michael Corleone as...

A Los Angeles homeless nonprofit funded by taxpayers paid $1.7 million to for-profit companies owned by its CEO, according to an investigation by the ...

The good news is that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is preparing to provide officers with body cameras over the next few months. The bad news is...

DALLAS (TNS) — School doesn’t begin again for a few weeks. But you wouldn’t know it looking at my phone. These days, returning to the classroom seems ...

Nearly 40,000 Pennsylvanians dropped their Obamacare coverage this year. The shocker is that the largest drop in coverage came from middle-income fami...

America’s affordability divide is increasingly visible in Americans’ biggest purchases. The wealthy may be doing just fine. It’s the Americans below t...

Movies are back! (Again.) There have been stories in the recent past about how going to the movies was becoming a thing again — see “Barbenheimer” in ...

Almost 15 months after Cameron Hamilton was fired for defending FEMA during a congressional hearing, the U.S. Senate confirmed him as FEMA's top admin...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Hardly a day goes by that President Donald Trump doesn’t vow to keep Iran from developing a nuclear weapon and denounce the decade-...

The New York State Museum receives annual grant funding from the U.S. Geological Survey’s STATEMAP program, part of the Department of the Interior, wh...

Donald Trump’s chief negotiating strategy consists of keeping the other party guessing about what he might do next. As this pertains to Iran, the pres...

When calling on my more than four decades in the campaign trenches to help decipher it to the outside world, I’ve settled on this basic premise: neith...

DUBOIS — Strong hospitals are the backbone of strong communities — and a strong Pennsylvania economy. They provide lifesaving care, create jobs, attra...

Bandit, Tater and Duck are the newest horses in Sheriff Chad Anderson’s mounted patrol unit in Bates County, Missouri. Silver and the Lone Ranger they...

A quarter-millennium into the American experiment, some of our skepticism of big government has given way to populism and astounding numbers of regula...

NEW YORK (TNS) — There are a lot of jobs in the U.S. economy that pay miserably low wages. And there are a lot that offer a reasonable hourly rate but...